LICETI Fortunio

Pyronarcha sive de fulminum natura deque febrium origine.

Padua, Crivellario, 1634 4to: Liceti's large device on title-page. Recent vellum: some wormholes in first two and last two leaves. Old library stamp and shelf mark on title-page which has a paper flaw in extreme lower edge; partly untrimmed. First edition of this interesting work on heat. The concept of man as microcosm of the natural world was receiving much attention at the time: the subtitle of this work highlights Liceti's adherence to the theory detailing the correspondence between lightning and human fever -" In quibus & Fulminum in Mundo Magno, & Febrium in Mundo Parvo caussae naturales omnes..."

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